Aurora FN 1000

Advantages: 16 hours recording time, small
Disadvantages: Cannot edit recording at a later date

...When I was revising for my GCSE's I recorded all of my notes onto tape. I listened to these as often as possible: when eating my breakfast, when going to sleep or when I was making cards. I found that this was very effective although I did have two main problems. First of all, it was a nuisance having to keep changing the tape for each subject (I only recorded one topic of a subject per side of a tape and I was studying at least 9 subjects each with at least two topics. So as you can imagine I had quite a few tapes!) My second main problem was when I played it back when going to sleep, the tape continued to whirr after the speaking had finished. So, for Christmas, I asked for a digital voice recorder and I received the Olympus VN 1000. It is small and has a clip so you could clip it onto your top pocket etc. The voice recorder is... Read review

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Advantages: good quality, value for money, variety of functions
Disadvantages: difficult recharging

...This a multifunction printer that is addressed to those who need not only to print black & white documents but also color documents and photos. As I am using it for more than a year I have a quite solid image about it. This is the only printer in my household so the average papers we print per month would range from 500 to 1000 black & white photos and no more than 10 photos. It's speed is good for a 100quid printer when printing at standard quality but printing at high quality it's annoying due to the low speed. The little screen on top of it increases it's functionality as you can easily change setting, perform maintenance or print something from a memory card. Oh, I haven't mentioned it has a memory card reader for most cards which is very useful in the case you want to print anything from a memory card without turning... Read review

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Advantages: easy to use, low cost, cheap to run.
Disadvantages: none

.... According to Samsung you can print 1000 colour copies and 2000 black copies on each set of toners. One thing that caught us by surprise was the "waste toner bottle". The printer suddenly stopped working and gave us a message that the waste toner bottle was full. We had no idea what this was or where it was, so looked at the online manual and discovered it was at the front of the machine and it collects waste toner, so as to keep your printer clean and functioning. Unfortunately the printer would not work until it had a new bottle, so we had to drive to our local town, 20 miles away to buy one for £7.49 or else wait 3-5 days for one to arrive in the post. As I was in the middle of doing my husbands VAT return and needed the printer, we had to go buy one. IS IT EASY TO USE? Yes it is. You instal 1 cd to instal the printer to your... Read review

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